How to Generate a QR Code in Django

Passing a QR code as an SVG code

This tiny project will generate a QR code for any text and pass it to the HTML template as an SVG code.

SVG is a very convenient medium for URLs or other text. This small demo demonstrates a few things:

1. How to pass a tag to the HTML
2. How to generate a QR code
3. How to use a variable as a stream (to write the SVG code not to the file but to the variable)
4. How to use Bootstrap :) Just kidding.

The Tutorial

1. pip install django
2. pip install qrcode
3. Create a Django project and an app inside it. We will not need any models here.

We want the generated QR code to be shown at a root URL, i.e., when we type www.yourdomain.com, so we need to add the following URL in urls.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from your_app import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', views.index)
]

Sure we need this views.index function now.

Go to your_app/views.py file and write this:

from django.shortcuts import render
import qrcode
import qrcode.image.svg
from…